UNBOUND: Book Repair for Booksellers
A desktop handbook for quick and easy home repairs for used books.

written and badly illustrated
by j godsey
methuen:[sic]press.com, 2006
36pps, stapleback, illustrated.
$15.00USD post paid to anywhere in the world.

[sic]press
14 pleasant street
methuen, ma, 01844 usa
Order at www.sicpress.com

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introduction

Traditionally there have been two types of book repair books,
there are those books directed at the library trade, where the end
goal is to prepare the book for further intense circulation, and
aesthetics take a backseat to durability. The others focus on archival
preservation and restoration of books of historical or monetary value,
and are primarily for the binders, conservators and repairers of the
bookworld.

This leaves booksellers wandering in the desert, with a stack of
books that aren't valuable enough to send out to a full-time
professional, yet are too good to discard.
This guide is intended to help extend the usefulness of books that
have already lived a rich and full life. Optional solutions are
presented, as there is hardly ever only one answer to the wide range
of problems abused books can present. Each solution has been found to
work adequately in the appropriate circumstance.

A word about library discards: regardless of what you may have
learned from the Internet, fifty percent of library discards are utter
trash, another forty percent are little more than reading copies and
cleaned up can serve as very nice shelf copies. The other ten percent
are books that are scarce in any condition and with a little bit of
careful attention can be greatly improved upon. However there are a
minute number of books that should not be 'fixed' by the amateur.

One can easily turn a good book into scrap paper. So, it is
assumed that you have researched the damaged book and found it not
valuable enough to demand repair by a professional. It is more work
for the conservator to correct a bad repair than to just start from
scratch. If the book has great monetary or sentimental value, it is
probably best that it be left 'as-is' or restored by a professional.

The author takes no responsibility for the mistakes of the user,
so there.


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contents

* read me 5
* stuff you'll need 6
* anatomy 101 8
* dirty book 10
* dirty dust jacket 11
* writing 12
* bookplates 13
* pockets, stickers or tape 14
* crayon 15
* cocked spine 16
* missing endpaper 17
* shaken hinge 18
* loose signature 19
* loose leaf 20
* bumped corner 21
* torn leaf 22
* bubbled cloth 24
* discolored cloth 25
* embossing 26
* wet books 27
* smelly books 28
* warped boards 29
* damaged endpaper 30
* split spine - paperback 32
* hitch-hikers 34
* supplies 36



j. godsey
14 pleasant st
methuen, ma 01844
www.sicpress.com - Book repair and cleaning supplies
Unbound: Book Repair for Booksellers
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